The Indianapolis journal., 1887-05-15
Religious Notes.

Religious Notes.
Patient waiting is often the highest way of
| doing Gods will.
Pittsburg business men have subscribed 81,
! 600 to the Dwight L. Moody birthday testimonial
| fund.
| The New York Advocate IS out with notice
warning the people against Arthur NJ. Nor
rison, hailing from the New England Southern
Conference as unworthy OF confidence.
The first Protestant chapel in Madrid Was
opened eighteen wears ago Now there said
Spain, with $4,000 openly professed Protestants
With silence only tn heir benediction.
God angels come
Where. in the shadow of great affiiction,
The soul sits dumb.
Luthardt: God is the whole life of our soul
All the powers of the mind do not find their aim
till they find God. In Him the heart finds it's
happiness, the reason its truth, the will its true
freedom.
Such moderation with thy bounty join
That thou mayst nothing give that is not thine
That iberaty is but cast away
Which makes US borrow what cannot pay
Sir J. DenEan.
The home Sunday school of Mr.. Spurgeon's
Church has 108 teachers, all members of the
church. and LAPS scholars. In all the schools
connected with the Tabernacle there ere 1877
scholars.
Two hundred and sixty-one new English saints
will he added to the calendar on the occasion of
the Popes Jubilee. They will consist of the
English martyrs from the fifteenth to the seven
teenth century.
Too much honey in the pulpit may cloy upon
the taste of the pew. Yet if the minister finds
it necessary to be acidulous, it is we'll to mix
some sugar with the lemon. The two together
make refreshing beverage.
God m ade the country, and man made the town;
What wonder then that health ard virtue, gifts
Than alone make sweet the bitter draught
That life holds out to all. should most abound
And least be threatened III the fields and groves.
-Cowper.
Negotiations continue with view to bringing
about union between the English Presbyterian
and
changes of pulpits are now of frequent occur
renee, and a fraternal feeling prevails on both
Sides
Foreign Bible societies apparently do more to
supply Germany with Bibles than do the Ger
man societies themselves Last year the native
societies circulated 214,318 copies of the
Scriptures. while foreign societies sold by col
porteurs, ETC., in Germany 1886, 743 copies.
The Church Of England official yearb book con-
tains tn statistics: Communicates, 1.181, ,9I5;
Sundsy-school scholars, 1.767, ,O06; baptisms-
infant 450 794 adult Il, 938; incum bents, 13 $685.
revenues. f5, 003. 935; church building. restora-
tions, endowments, parsonages, ETC., Fl. 445, ,S39.
At the earnest solicitation of the committee
OF Bishop William Taylor's self-supporting mis-
sions Lr. Asbury Lowery and wife sailed from
New York, May 5, for Chilli South America,
locate nine missionaries. whom they accompany,
and to supervise the missions already established
by William Taylor.
DR.. T. w. Chambers: Observation shows that
a secular Sunday rests upon sacred Sunday.
Guarantee the day of rest by a religious sane
!
such sanction, and you imperil the whole insti-
tuition. There would still be Sunday, but it
would be neither holy day day Of rest
Ah, world of you so gray
And weary. World, of spinning
That you repeat the tales to-day
You told at the beginnngl
For 10! the old myths that made
The early stage successes
Still hold the boards and still are played,
With effects and dresses
Austin Dobson.
The little word sin has surely no beauty in it
that we should to contemplate it. Only
three letters compose it. and yet what story it
tellsl 1t is story whose light and shade in real
life far exceed any dream of the romancer If
should attempt to uncover half the meaning
of the word, our souls would turn with sicken-
ing horror from the sight 1t is written of God
that He cannot look on iniquty."
Archdeacon Farrar's declaration that England
found India sober and has made it drunken. has
been called in question, but the preachers as
sailant would have been more comfortable if he
had kept still. for DR.. Farrar has proved beyond
question that what he said true Mr. Bar
ton, of Madras, declares that among the Hindoos
1.-The vice of drunkenness had disappeared, till
reintroduced under British rule
The Church Army of the Church of England,
which is at work among the poor By methods
modelled. to some extent, after those of the Sal
vation Army. has brought forward for conirma-
ticn over three thousand adults, mostly gath
ered at the street corners and from public
houses; has one thousand more adults waiting
confirmation, and has over six thousand adult
communicates, who are humble speakers and
laborers IN the cause of Christ.
Father Thomas Conaty. of Worcester, Mass,
asks: who support the saloons? Certainly not
the wealthy classes he answers ''They seldom
enter any establishment that may bc called by
that name 1t is the poor, foolish workingman
who allows himself to be bled that the liquor
traffic may live. In one of our factory cities in
Massachusetts. with $4,000 operatives, there are
3I5 public saloons, one ic. every forty. That
is to say forty working people supposed to
support saloon. When you consider that out
of those Is, ,00G operatives there must be several
thousands who never use liquor. you readily
see how heavy this blood tax is upon the classes